Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...late dinners presented at their best. To take up the arguments for the other side, it is to be noticed, first, that although athletic sports are important, and certainly to be encouraged, yet the boating and ball interests are not the only ones to be consulted in this matter, though this seems to have been tacitly assumed...
...second part of the statement - that the present hour for dinner is not conducive to convenience - is so much a matter of personal opinion that it cannot be argued...
...darkness, or leap boldly into the night with little idea where he will land. Ice and snow would render the descent, short as it is, uncomfortably precarious. The use of merely proposing such an improvement is, we know, questioned, but few men are generous enough to take the matter into their own hands, and it can only be hoped that in the present instance, at least, the suggestion may reach those who alone have authority to make the change...
FIRST and foremost, a word to some half-dozen Exchanges in the West, who have just received our first issue of the year, and think to fill up their attenuated sheets by an attack on the style of matter in ours. Did it never occur to these children of the prairies that we do not depend absolutely on our exchange-list for support? Let them accept with thankfulness the food furnished them, remembering that even muscular literature is better than that of the whining stamp...
...race from this point was practically between Matthews and Holyoke. It was a splendid struggle, and during the last quarter a succession of tremendous spurts. Matthews was unable once to gain a lead, and seemed less together than her opponent, but still the race was very close, and a matter of doubt to the excited lookers-on, up to the very finish. But there was more left in one boat than in the other, and one more dashing spurt from Otis, every man in the crew well with him, left Matthews behind; and the friends on shore were hoarse with...